May 7, 2019
At one prison in rural El Dorado, Kansas, two educators have teamed up to help inmates prepare to rejoin society – and the U.S. workforce.
May 13, 2019
The votes have been tallied, the judges have spoken, and there’s a new Koch Innovation Challenge Grand Champion for 2019.In Friday’s final pitch competition (Ma...
April 22, 2019
Sid Johnson’s official title is a mouthful: Process and Systems Manager for Koch Remediation and Environmental Services. But he’d prefer that you just call him ...
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April 8, 2019
As many as 10,000 people are released from prisons each week across the United States, but their experiences can vary dramatically. They face many barriers to success, from maintaining resilient support systems to sec...
June 12, 2019
Each year, approximately 700,000 people finish their time in prison and reenter communities across the United States....
June 7, 2019
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June 3, 2019
In Kingston, Ontario, Canada, at the INVISTA facility that produces the air bag fibers that go into millions of autom...
May 28, 2019
What does entrepreneurship look like across Koch companies?At the Hispanic Scholarship Fund’s inaugural Entrepr...
For attorneys at Koch companies, a passion for equal justice under the law transcends their daily jobs. That’s ...
May 6, 2019
After more than 30 years of collaboration, Flint Hills Resources was recently recognized for reaching a significant m...
May 3, 2019
Amid the gridlock and partisanship in Washington, D.C., and beyond, at least one issue broke through the noise and ga...
As a lifelong NASA enthusiast, Derek McFall isn’t afraid to jump into the unknown. But the SRG Global product d...
May 1, 2019
April 17, 2019
For many former inmates, success upon re-entry means securing housing, maintaining a solid support system of family a...
April 16, 2019
April 15, 2019
Through its partnerships, Koch Industries is committed to identifying and breaking down barriers to opportunity for e...
April 1, 2019
Spring has returned at Wichita State University, and while many students are diligently taking class notes and preppi...
March 22, 2019
March 20, 2019
At Koch, we believe in everyone’s ability to become a lifelong learner and succeed while helping others. Throug...
March 14, 2019
Once a gaming novelty, virtual reality is happening at Koch facilities across the United States. From safety training...
March 13, 2019
When you’re thinking of taking a big risk, does your mind immediately think about all the reasons it could fail...
March 8, 2019
When it comes to finding fulfillment with your career, there’s no one direct path. Nobody’s perfect, and ...
March 6, 2019
Conversations in the startup community typically hover around large funding rounds, valuations and the next big thing...
February 28, 2019
Don’t fear change. When businesses embrace it, adapt to it, and drive it, they can benefit everybody in society...
February 27, 2019
The boiler at the heart of Georgia-Pacific’s Broadway mill in Green Bay, Wisconsin, arrived by barge on the ban...
February 26, 2019
Brad Razook and Jim Hannan KII EVP and CEO – Resources | KII EVP & CEO — EnterprisesWeb scraping. Op...
February 22, 2019
February 21, 2019
Transformations across Koch Industries have been highlighted in several recent issues of Discovery (and in the Perspe...
February 20, 2019
February 19, 2019
The 67,000 U.S. employees at Koch (130,000 worldwide) work to create everything from toilet paper, transportation fue...
February 18, 2019
February 5, 2019
Looking toward an unknowable future, it’s certain that career fields and job requirements will continue to chan...
January 31, 2019
January 27, 2019
About 95 percent of the people currently incarcerated across the United States will one day rejoin their communities....
January 23, 2019
Our CEO, Charles Koch, often says “the future is unknowable, but it’s not unimaginable.”So imagine ...
January 21, 2019
For students at one Wichita, Kansas, middle school, robotics education just got a lot more hands-on thanks to the dil...
January 15, 2019
Imagine waking up every morning with a tremor – a shaking so pronounced that you can’t even pick up a gla...
January 4, 2019
December 20, 2018
This week, Congress passed and the president signed into law the FIRST STEP Act – designed to improve...
December 19, 2018
Advancing policies that make people’s lives better, such as the criminal justice reform of the FIRST STEP Act, ...
December 16, 2018
December 14, 2018
Every December, there’s a man up north who delivers thousands of gifts to thousands of children. He has the hea...
November 26, 2018
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November 20, 2018
In my more than two decades at Koch Industries, I have witnessed—and been part of—remarkable transformati...
November 16, 2018
November 15, 2018
Now more than ever, people want companies to stand for something.Askia Ahmad, an IT director at Flint Hills Resources...
When it comes to fixing our country’s broken criminal justice system, there is no wrong time to act, and there ...
November 13, 2018
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November 7, 2018
Every year, roughly 250,000 members of the armed forces take off their uniforms for the last time and step back into ...
November 5, 2018
If Dawn Wurst had listened to a well-meaning teacher in high school who told her she shouldn't pursue a career in...
October 30, 2018
Nobody—and nothing is perfect. As Georgia-Pacific master technician Mike Cooper learned, sometimes even a gigan...
October 23, 2018
Once incarcerated with a life sentence without the possibility of parole, recently released Alice Marie Johnson knows...
October 12, 2018
Great ideas can come from anyone, anywhere at any time – even while using the bathroom. Just ask 11-year-old Cl...
October 8, 2018
Zero serious injuries. Zero significant process incidents. The vision is a tall order. For a large manufacturer like ...
October 4, 2018
Today’s teachers know challenge. They experience it with every new class of students at the start of every scho...
October 3, 2018
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